Stone-loading wagon



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,421, dated December 13, 1859. l

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, DAVID S. FANoHER, 0f Logansport, in the county ofCass and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Machine forRaising, Loading, and Unloading Boulders or Heavy Stone Upon and From aWagon; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, references being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a horizontalplan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation. Fig. 3 is a receiving table.Fig. 4: is the clamps or grappling irons.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The frame or bed A, is fixed upon the gearing of a common log or otherwagon. The front end of said bed is raised some twelve or fourteeninches above the front axle and secured to the same by a small hook thatpasses down beside the king-bolt. The rear end rests firmly upon thehind axle, making the bed to incline some eight or ten degrees. The dropB, B, is secured to the rear end of the bed by the hinged joints K, K,and is made to rise or lower to suit the occasion and can be secured toany desired position above or below the frame of the bed by the hooks G,G, which catch into the staples P, P. The bed and drop are filled withfriction rollers 0, c, placed about ten inches apart. The center timbersB, is provided with pinholes Z, 2'. Upon the front end of the bed is astrong Windlass or roller provided with three spools 0;, b, b, themiddle spool a, being some three or more times the diameter of the smallspools b, bl The rope m, winds upon the spool a, and the ropes a, a,wind upon the spools Z), Z). The locks i F, F, are dropped to the groundto hold the wagon stationary while loading, as shown by dotted linesFig. 2. The rails O, are designed to be taken off for the convenience ofunloading over the sides, if required.

The receiving-table A, Fig. 3, is made of two inch plank, with a flangeor cleats around the outer edge, to give strength and retain the stone.The strong hooks 71 h, are firmly fixed in the lower edge, and holes orstaples 3 in the upper edge for the ropes 11-, to pass through.

The levers E, and the slotted cross barsD, are made with pinholesthrough the bars. The levers are provided with strong loops Z, Z, forcatching upon thehooks h, h, Fig. 3. There are to be threereceiving-tables and X one set of clamps for each wagon. r I

S, Fig. 2, represents the seat which is designed to cover and preservethe ropes.

r, r, Fig. 1, are small rollers placed some H two inches below the planeofthe rollers e, e. 1 I11 using my stoneloading wagon. the earth isremoved from the stone or boulder to a sufficient depth to get below thebilge of the stone. The wagon isthen backed to I within eight or teninches of the stoneand the droplet down to or a little below the isurface. The receiving-table is placed between the stone and dropped, asin A, Fig. I 2. The levers are then placed under each side of theboulder and the loops Z, Z, fas tened to the hooks h,h, and thecross-bar D slid upon the levers E, E, andthus clampe and secured underthe bilge of the boulder The ropes n, n, arethen assed back ove all therollers and throng the holes y, y and fastened to the slotted bar D. Thehorses are then hitched to the rope m, which winds up the ropes a, 'n,andturns the table f A, down upon the rollers, drawing it up to I therequired position, as at I, Fig. 2, where it is secured by pin 0 Theirons are then taken off and the ropes in, n,passed under I the threefirst rollers and broughtnp over. the smallrollers r, r, for the secondload, and so on for the third. In unloading,the pin are taken out andthe receiving-table, :wit 1 its load, allowed to slide down the inclineplane. f j What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent is p y 1. The inclined frame or bedA, and the hinged drop B, incombination with the friction rollers c, 0, and the windlass a, b, b,

DAVID SJFANCHER.

Witnesses:

THOS. GUTHRIE, CHARLES B. Lassnnnn.

